The online registration for the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2019) will be open from May 2 to 31, the government announced on Sunday. This year, the single window counselling for admission to BE/B.Tech courses in government and aided engineering colleges and the management quota seats in self-financial affiliated colleges will be conducted by the Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE). Until last year Anna University was the nodal agency for engineering admissions.
The Higher Education Department would formally notify the TNEA 2019 schedule on Monday. The department has established 42 facilitation centres in government and aided engineering colleges, polytechnic institutes, and arts and science colleges in the districts, an official release said. Higher Education Secretary Mangat Ram Sharma said the DoTE was free to use the services of any university it wanted to.
Extra help
“We have people in-house but we will be roping people from other universities. Basically, what we have done is we have elaborated the mandate of DoTE (to conduct the TNEA),” he said.
Earlier, Anna University was involved in the counselling as it was centralised, Mr. Sharma contended.
“Now with the decentralised method, counselling will be held mostly on the campuses of institutions that come under the DoTE. Almost 90% of the software (needed for online counselling) part of the work is being done by DoTE. They are reasonably confident that they can do it themselves. From the government’s side we have given the provision that they can use the services of any university,” he added.
The Government College of Technology in Coimbatore, which conducts online admission for a few programmes, handles around 30,000 to 40,000 applications each year, he added.
“They are doing admission for these programmes and have sufficient experience. The vendors (service providers) who are helping the online admission for the Dirctorate of Medical Education will assist us,” Mr. Sharma said.
Mr. Sharma said though the candidates had been given a month, the department expects that most of the applications would be received within 10 to 15 days.
